Hey everyone..
Well another week has passed. Its been a really good week and has been really fun..
Lets see here, first off we played sports last Monday for 5 hours and me and Elder Mearns were way tired and we had to bike 10 miles after that so it was a pretty long day but a good P day!!
This week I went on exchanges with the District Leaders companion over in Minneapolis, it was my first time in Minneapolis so I was really excited!! Exchanges are really cool. I seem to find that allot of miracles happen when your on exchanges....let me tell you, so we got to Minneapolis after district meeting.. district meeting was great talking about how we the members are the rock of Christ and Heleman 5:12. We have been working on getting the members involved in the branch because they don't really talk to each other, they just come to church and go home so there's not much fellowship in the branch. We have been working on that goal as a district lately.. so I went to Minneapolis as I was saying, and me and Elder LY had two lessons that night, one was with a 20 year old girl she is really cool and they're trying to get her baptized and stuff.... she is just waiting on an answer to her prayers so we taught her about prayer. The lesson went really well!!! After that we taught an old lady and her daughter, that lesson was all in hmong so it was fun.... I guess ha ha but we had a member come with us and we (they) talked forever! We are supposed to be in at 930 at night but we didn't get back to our apt till like 1015 that night it was pretty funny.. The next day we went tracking and it was going pretty bad no one wanted to talk but we had a feeling to knock on this house, we went up there and knocked three times and no one answered so we were about to leave and I decided to knock one more time and a man came down the stairs and opened the door, it was a family that just moved here from Thailand 1 year ago so they are really new. They had no Christian background didn't know who God or Christ was so we taught them and they we very interested and I think now the Elders have almost got a date set with them!! There was one very important lesson I learned in that experience... to be persistent in our work, don't give up as easily and follow the prompting from the spirit...
Thank you all for everything you do!! oh and while I was in Minneapolis my companion and the DL were in my area and they found a new investigator that committed to baptism the 26th of May in the very first meeting.... its crazy how people are prepared for us. Its been an amazing week!
On Sunday I think I spoke the most hmong I have ever spoken. I gave the prayer in Sacrament meeting, then we found out during Sacrament meeting that we had to teach the Gospel Principals class....that was an interesting experience! then in Priesthood I had to translate for an old guy. So it was interesting....I had a major head ache after though ha ha but it was a good day and I realized I know more than I thought and could do more than I thought!!
I love you all and thank you all for the support and I surely miss you all!!
Here are some pictures from the past couple weeks hope you enjoy!!
Love
Elder Crandall
P.S Everyone go to Mormon.org and look at the father of the families profile that I baptized.... Xia Xeng Lor
http://mormon.org/me/8SBZ/XiaXengLor/
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